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Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Nadine Gordimer's novel is a passionate narrative of the complex manifestations of that final test of human relations we call love. It moves with the restless pace of living itself; if it is a parable of present violence, it is also an affirmation of the will to reconciliation that starts where it must, between individual men and women.
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Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
A relationship forms between an Arab mechanic desperate to avoid deportation and a rich young woman desperate to escape her family's control.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Description
In an extraordinary period immediately before the first non-racial election and the beginning of majority rule in South Africa, Vera Stark, the protagonist of Nadine Gordimer's passionate novel, weaves a ruthless interpretation of her own past into her participation into the present as a lawyer representing blacks in the struggle to reclaim the land. None to Accompany Me is arresting and reverbant - perhaps the most powerful novel to date by one of...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"Gordimer trains her keen eye on Steve and Jabulile, an interracial couple living in a newly, tentatively, free South Africa. They have a daughter, Sindiswa; they move to the suburbs; Steve becomes a lecturer at a university; Jabulile trains to become a lawyer; there is another child, a boy this time. There is nothing so extraordinary about their lives, and yet, in telling their story and the stories of their friends and families, Gordimer manages...
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